At least 13 people died in Nepal when a slide of snow and ice from Mount Annapurna caused a river to burst its banks and flood the surrounding area, including the town of Pokhara. The head of the Regional Meteorological Office said the flood had been caused by a disruption in the "snow blanket in the mountains".

30 September 2011

A leading Russian climber, who had scaled many of the world's highest peaks, died in an avalanche on a "simple snow slope" in the Himalayas. Sergei Cherezov was attempting to climb the 7,059-metre-high Tulagi peak with several others.

4 June 2011

Japanese climber Masue Yoshida, 63, and Kumar Rai, her Nepalese guide, were killed in an avalanche while trying to climb the 5,844-metre-high Naya Kanga peak in north-central Nepal.